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and References AbstractThis paper analyzes the convergence of information technology infrastructures and traditionaleducational spaces and proposes flexible criteria for material-virtual, hybrid learning environments. Idevelop the concept of built pedagogy to account for the ways that built environments teach valuesthrough their constraints upon social action and interaction and suggest ways that the built pedagogiesof hybrid spaces can facilitate learning by inviting students and teachers to participate in the continualre-design of learning structures.This paper analyzes the convergence of information technology infrastructures and traditionaleducational spaces and proposes flexible criteria for material-virtual, hybrid learning environments. Idevelop the concept of built pedagogy to account for the ways that built environments teach valuesthrough their constraints upon social action and interaction and suggest ways that the built pedagogiesof hybrid spaces can facilitate learning by inviting students and teachers to participate in the continualre-design of learning structures.